Why I Write What I Write

It seems weird to justify what I write in my own blog but I was recently sent a piece by Mark Llobrera that resonated with me and I wanted to spin off of it. The fear of stating the obvious is one of my primary personal roadblocks to writing. I have a horrible time deciding […]

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Thoughts on The Force Awakens

Like any self-respecting nerd, I have capital-t Thoughts on The Force Awakens.  I didn’t see it on opening night but I did make it before the weekend was out.  I’m sure my thoughts aren’t anything new but I want to get them out of my head so they’re coming out here. It should go without […]

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Google Works in Mysterious Ways

I was in a pairing session with one of my teammates earlier today and we stumbled into an interesting little bit of inspiration. Working in Javascript, we were thinking about splitting some values while iterating through an array but that didn’t really feel like the right answer.  Looking for some kind of better solution, my teammate Googled […]

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Full Stack Engineer vs. Web Developer

When I started my professional career at Michigan State University’s Division of University Relations, I was a web developer.  I wrote PHP and ASP and JavaScript and HTML and sliced up images in Photoshop and designed MySQL databases.  I had to do a little bit of server management.  I also trained clients in how to […]

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